LibGuides: Literary Awards: 1970- 1979

1979 Winners

BEST FICTION

Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780767904421

Publication Date: 1999-09-01

BEST BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Call Number: E840.8.K4S33

ISBN: 9780345410610

Publication Date: 1996-09-29

BEST HISTORY

Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 by Richard B. Davis
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780870492105

Publication Date: 1978-01-01

BEST POETRY

Mirabell by James Ingram Merrill
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0689109016

Publication Date: 1981-01-01

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Call Number: PZ7.P273 Gr 2004 Juvenile

ISBN: 0064402010

Publication Date: 2004-04-13

1978 Winners

BEST FICTION

Blood Tie by Mary Lee Settle
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9781570030970

Publication Date: 1995-09-01

BEST BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate
Call Number: PR3533.B334

ISBN: 9781582435244

Publication Date: 2009-08-18

BEST HISTORY

The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough
Call Number: F1569.C2M33

ISBN: 9780671244095

Publication Date: 1978-10-15

BEST POETRY

The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780226572598

Publication Date: 1981-07-15

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The View from the Oak by Herbert R. Kohl; Judith Kohl; Roger Bayless (Illustrator)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9781565846364

Publication Date: 2000-10-01

1977 Winners

BEST FICTION

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
Call Number: PS3537.T316S6 1990

ISBN: 0140139400

Publication Date: 1990-11-01

BEST BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Norman Thomas by W. A. Swanberg
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0684147688

Publication Date: 1976-01-01

BEST HISTORY

World of Our Fathers by Irving Howe
Call Number: F128.9.J5H6

ISBN: 0151463530

Publication Date: 1989-05-01

BEST POETRY

Collected Poems, 1930-1976 by Richard Eberhart
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0701121653

Publication Date: 1976

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson; Haru Wells (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.P273 Mas Juvenile

ISBN: 9780064402811

Publication Date: 1989-03-24

1976 Winners

BEST FICTION

J R by William Gaddis; Robert Coover (Foreword by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9781564784339

Publication Date: 2012-02-07

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
Call Number: PR478.E8F8 1977

ISBN: 0195021711

Publication Date: 1977-02-03

BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823, 1770-1823 by David Brion Davis
Call Number: HT867 .D38 1999 Ebook

ISBN: 9780195126716

Publication Date: 1999-04-15

BEST POETRY

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780140586688

Publication Date: 1990-01-01

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Bert Breen's Barn by Walter D. Edmonds
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780815602552

Publication Date: 1991-04-01

1975 Winners

BEST FICTION

Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780395860250

Publication Date: 1997-04-02
The Hair of Harold Roux by Thomas Williams; Andre Dubus (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3573.I456H35 1974

ISBN: 9781608195831

Publication Date: 2011-06-07

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

Marcel Proust by Roger Shattuck
Call Number: PQ2631.R63A874

ISBN: 9780691013916

Publication Date: 1982-09-21
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas; Lewis Thomas
Call Number: QH331.T45 1978

ISBN: 0140047433

Publication Date: 1978-02-23

BEST BIOGRAPHY

The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall
Call Number: PS1541.Z5S42 v. 1, v. 2

ISBN: 9780674530805

Publication Date: 1998-07-15

BEST HISTORY

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn
Call Number: F67.H9805

ISBN: 0674641604

Publication Date: 1974-01-01

BEST POETRY

Presentation Piece by Marilyn Hacker
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780670004195

Publication Date: 1974-04-08

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9781416914075

Publication Date: 2006-05-01

1974 Winners

BEST FICTION

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon; Frank Miller (Illustrator)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780143039945

Publication Date: 2006-10-31
A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780374516246

Publication Date: 1981-04-01

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

Deeper into Movies by Pauline Kael
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780714509419

Publication Date: 1973

BEST BIOGRAPHY

Macaulay by John Clive
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780674540057

Publication Date: 1987-03-01
Malcolm Lowry by Douglas Day
Call Number: PR6023.O96Z598

ISBN: 0192117262

Publication Date: 1973-10-25

BEST HISTORY

Macaulay by John Clive
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780674540057

Publication Date: 1987-03-01

BEST POETRY

The Fall of America by Allen Ginsberg
Call Number: PS3513.I74F3

ISBN: 9780872860636

Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
Call Number: PS3535.I233D58

ISBN: 9780393311631

Publication Date: 1994-08-17

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Court of the Stone Children by Eleanor Cameron
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0140342893

Publication Date: 1990-06-01

1973 Winners

BEST FICTION

Chimera by John Barth
Call Number: PS3552.A75C5

ISBN: 9780449211137

Publication Date: 1985-11-12
Augustus by John Williams; Daniel Mendelsohn (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3545.I5286A94 1972

ISBN: 9781590178218

Publication Date: 2014-08-19

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

Diderot by Arthur M. Wilson
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0195015061

Publication Date: 1972-06-22

BEST BIOGRAPHY

George Washington by James Thomas Flexner
Call Number: E312.29.F56

ISBN: 0316286028

Publication Date: 1972-11-30

BEST HISTORY

The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War by Nick Jones; Robert Manson Myers
Call Number: F290.M9

ISBN: 0300012144

Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Judenrat by Isaiah Trunk; Steven T. Katz (Introduction by)
Call Number: D810.J4T72

ISBN: 780803294288

Publication Date: 1996-04-01

BEST POETRY

Collected Poems, 1951-1971 by A. R. Ammons; A. Ammons
Call Number: PS3501.M6A17 1972

ISBN: 9780393321920

Publication Date: 2001-04-17

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin; Rebecca Guay (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ7.L5215 Far Juvenile

ISBN: 9780689845345

Publication Date: 2001-09-01

1972 Winners

BEST FICTION

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor; Robert Giroux (Introduction by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780374515362

Publication Date: 1971-01-01

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

Classical Style by Charles Rosen
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0393006530

Publication Date: 1972-10-17

BEST BIOGRAPHY

Eleanor and Franklin by Joseph P. Lash
Call Number: E807.1.R48L355 2014

ISBN: 9780393349757

Publication Date: 2014-09-08

BEST HISTORY

Ordeal of the Union (Volumes VII & VIII by Allan Nevins
Call Number: Not available- Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780020354451

Publication Date: 1971

BEST POETRY

Selected Poems by Howard Moss
Call Number: Not available- Request via Interlibrary Loan

Publication Date: 1971
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara by Frank O'Hara; Allen Donald (Editor); John Ashbery (Introduction by)
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780520201668

Publication Date: 1995-03-31

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9781585678280

Publication Date: 2006-11-16

1971 Winners

BEST FICTION

Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow; Stanley Crouch (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3503.E4488M4 1970

ISBN: 9780142437834

Publication Date: 2004-01-06

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

Cocteau by Francis Steegmuller
Call Number: PQ2605.O15Z86

ISBN: 9780879236069

Publication Date: 1986-04-01

BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

Roosevelt by James MacGregor Burns
Call Number: E807.B386

ISBN: 9780765199195

Publication Date: 1996-08-01

BEST POETRY

To See, to Take by Mona Van Duyn
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 0689103123

Publication Date: 1970-02-01

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780440405498

Publication Date: 1991-11-01

1970 Winners

BEST FICTION

Them by Joyce Carol Oates; Elaine Showalter (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3565.A8T46

ISBN: 9780345484406

Publication Date: 2006-09-12

BEST ARTS & LETTERS

An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman; Wendy Wasserstein (Contribution by); Garry Wills (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3515.E343Z5

ISBN: 9780316352857

Publication Date: 1999-06-07

BEST HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY

Huey Long by T. Harry Williams
Call Number: E748.L86W48 1969

ISBN: 9780394747903

Publication Date: 1981-08-12

BEST POETRY

Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop; Elizabet Bishop
Call Number: PS3503.I785 1969

ISBN: 9780374518172

Publication Date: 1984-04-01

BEST CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

A Day of Pleasure by Roman Vishniac (Photographer); Isaac Bashevis Singer
Call Number: Not available—Request via Interlibrary Loan

ISBN: 9780374416966

Publication Date: 1986-05-01